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Deliberate Internet Shutdowns
For two days in September, Afghanistan had no internet. No satellite failed; no cable was cut. This was a deliberate outage, mandated by the Taliban government. It followed a more localized shutdown two weeks prior, reportedly instituted "to prevent immoral activities." No additional explanation...
EUVD-2001-1341
Malware in sbrugna...
Russian-Linked Hackers Target Eastern European NGOs and Media
Russian and Belarusian non-profit organizations, Russian independent media, and international non-governmental organizations active in Eastern Europe have become the target of two separate spear-phishing campaigns orchestrated by threat actors whose interests align with that of the Russian...
Russian Journalist's iPhone Compromised by NSO Group's Zero-Click Spyware
The iPhone belonging to Galina Timchenko, a prominent Russian journalist and critic of the government, was compromised with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, a new collaborative investigation from Access Now and the Citizen Lab has revealed. The infiltration is said to have happened on or around...
Moderate: Red Hat Security Advisory: sane-backends security update
An update for sane-backends is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability...
Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: sane-backends security update
An update for sane-backends is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, ...
I'm Leaving IBM
Today is my last day at IBM. If you've been following along, IBM bought my startup Resilient Systems in Spring 2016. Since then, I have been with IBM, holding the nicely ambiguous title of "Special Advisor." As of the end of the month, I will be back on my own. I will continue to write and speak,...
Facebook's New Privacy Hires
The Wired headline sums it up nicely -- "Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics": In December, Facebook hired Nathan White away from the digital rights nonprofit Access Now, and put him in the role of privacy policy manager. On Tuesday of this week, lawyers Nate Cardozo, of the...
Access Now Is Looking for a Chief Security Officer
The international digital human rights organization Access Now I am on the board is looking to hire a Chief Security Officer. I believe that, somewhere, there is a highly qualified security person who has had enough of corporate life and wants instead to make a difference in the world. If that's...
Scam Alert: Your Trusted Friends Can Hack Your Facebook Account
If you receive a message from any of your Facebook Friends asking for urgent help to recover their Facebook account, since they've added you as one of their 'Trusted Contacts'—just don’t blindly believe it. Researchers have detected a new Facebook phishing scam that can even trick an experienced...
[SECURITY] Fedora 24 Update: sane-backends-1.0.25-7.fc24
Scanner Access Now Easy SANE is a universal scanner interface. The SANE application programming interface API provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, etc...
[SECURITY] Fedora 25 Update: sane-backends-1.0.25-7.fc25
Scanner Access Now Easy SANE is a universal scanner interface. The SANE application programming interface API provides standardized access to any raster image scanner hardware flatbed scanner, hand-held scanner, video and still cameras, frame-grabbers, etc...
Scientific Linux Security Update : hplip on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20130221)
Several temporary file handling flaws were found in HPLIP. A local attacker could use these flaws to perform a symbolic link attack, overwriting arbitrary files accessible to a process using HPLIP. CVE-2013-0200, CVE-2011-2722 The hplip packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.12.4, whic...
hpijs, hplip, libsane security update
CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2013:0500 Updated hplip packages that fix several security issues, multiple bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common...
RedHat Update for hplip RHSA-2013:0500-02
Check for the Version of hplip OpenVAS Vulnerability Test RedHat Update for hplip RHSA-2013:0500-02 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms...
CVE-2001-1360
CVE-2001-1360 : Vulnerability in Scanner Access Now Easy (SANE) before 1.0.5 related to pnm and saned. The supplied documents do not provide further technical details, root cause, affected components beyond those, exploitation vectors, impact specifics, or a patch/remediation. No in-the-wild expl...
